The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 108

Then the Hunter took pity on them, laid aside his anger, and told the miller to drive them back again.

Who acts: Hunter, miller · What happens: take, lay, tell, drive back, anger · To what, where: pity, miller, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, miller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hunter	det
3	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
9	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
10	aside	aside	ADP	_	12 anger	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 anger	nmod:poss
12	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 miller	det
17	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 drive	mark
19	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drive	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 drive	advmod
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 drive	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Hunter	pity	then	on others = other	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on they=Destination
2	lay	participle	the Hunter not said here			aside Hunter's anger	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Hunter not said here	the miller			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent miller=Recipient clause=Topic
4	drive back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the miller not said here	others = other	again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
5	anger		Hunter				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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